I will be voting Green next week and the idea that this is automatically a vote for Romney is not true for those of us living in non-swing states. Nor is it "throwing our votes away" as some argue. In fact, for a NYer or Texan to vote Green is less like throwing our votes away than voting for the candidate we don't really support and whose win or loss in our state is a foregone conclusion anyway. Better to send the protest message to the candidate who took your vote for granted and help build up the third party. Those in Ohio, however, do as I say and not as I do: vote Obama.